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Carrie And David's Popshop CD album has been played a few too many times in our house for my liking! It's a nice little album though in fairness, and I think there are a lot of 2-7yr olds who would really like this. It's very reasonably priced at only £3.97 on Amazon including free delivery.

This CD is basically a compilation of tunes from the popular CBeebies TV show of the same name. Carrie and David are famous vocal trainers, who worked on a few reality TV shows in the past. Now they do this little CBeebies show where they teacher children how to put songs together by combining a beat with different sounds and words. They make song-writing easy for toddlers basically!

There are 22 songs on this CD, and many of them are quite short (between one minute and two and a half minutes long). I don't think this is a problem considering the age group this CD is aimed at. The grandson doesn't seem bothered, he's satisfied that the songs are all as long as they need to be and doesn't complain that they've ended too soon or anything.

There are loads of great, positive, cheerful sing-along tunes on here which many youngsters will enjoy crooning along to. Things like 'I like being me' and 'Make Time for Sharing'. The songs are easy to learn with lots of repetition, I've picked up quite a few of them without even trying! Or wanting to.

The best thing about this CD is that it's totally positive, totally age-appropriate and very well put together. The instrumentals behind each song are all quite basic, but well produced. The songs run smoothly and cheerfully - even the 'sad songs'! It's a great introduction to pop music for youngsters, much more appropriate than giving a four year old a Pixie Lott or Pink CD then wondering why they've learned to swear by the age of five... Keep it age-appropriate with this instead!

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Disc #1 Tracklisting1 Popshop Theme2 Bounce3 Is It This Or Is It That4 How Am I Gonna Wake You Up5 I Like Being Me6 Check Me7 School Is Cool8 Side To Side9 World Gets Bigger10 I've Lost My Smile11 Fly Away12 Dreamteam13 Riff's Theme14 I'm A Winner15 I Love To Sing16 Make Time For Sharing17 No Longer Grumpy18 On Safari19 Come On And Make Some Noise20 Thank You21 Yum Yum Yum22 Don't Want To Go To Bed